Tag Archive: technology

NEWS RELEASE: Exaxe shortlisted for the FStech Awards Exaxe is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for the Technology Provider of the Year award at the 2016 FStech Awards which will to take place in London on March 17th. Exaxe has been shortlisted for this award as: It […]

Life and pensions set for a good year in 2016 The last few years have been difficult for all of us working in the financial services sector. The hangover from the boom that preceded the global financial crisis of 2008 lasted far longer than originally predicted, and the ‘plink, plink, […]

The flood gates are about to open. Less than 50,000 employers had auto-enrolled by the start of this year and a similar number will do so by the end of 2015, as more medium and smaller employers come on stream. However, it is in 2016 when the big push will […]

The June print edition of TechLife is now available online. TechLife is published every quarter and is filled with news, opinion pieces, white papers and information on legislative changes within the life and pensions industry in the UK and abroad. If you wish to receive a hard copy of TechLife […]

This article was originally commissioned for the March/April 2015 edition of the Actuarial Post. The answer is the rules surrounding regulated savings and investments. Just when we absorbed the need to change systems to facilitate a new type of pension product, i.e. the pension as a bank account, three new […]

This article was originally commissioned and published in the February 2015 edition of the Investment Life & Pensions Moneyfacts publication. Tom Murray explores the impact of emerging technologies on the protection market. I have been working my way through the TV series ‘House’ over the last few months, courtesy of […]

This article was originally commissioned for the Nov/Dec 2014 edition of the Actuarial Post. There is a lot of talk about the effect of big data on the world of product retailing and how it is going to transform the whole sector. Mass retailers, such as supermarkets, are to the […]

While I don’t claim to have 20/20 vision, I do have a view of what the UK’s life and pensions landscape will be like in 2020, and it is one that will be hugely different from the one we see today. The changes introduced in recent years have changed the […]

Aligning the business proposition to the needs of the company is vital if companies are to get positive benefits from their investment in technology. John Keegan, recently appointed Head of Proposition Delivery at Exaxe, has emphasised the importance of addressing the business need during the selection and definition phase of […]

This article was originally commissioned for the Oct/Nov 2014 edition of the Actuarial Post. When it comes to buying technology solutions, many life and pension companies have a history of partial successes. Despite rigorous purchasing processes, when the solution was implemented, problems occurred that resulted in over-runs in terms of […]